The World’s Largest McDonald’s
Tuesday, 5th July 2011 by Chris Hannigan
Standing over the Will Rogers Turnpike outside of Vinita, Oklahoma we find a McDonald's large enough to cross a four-lane highway! At 29,135 square feet in size, that makes this McDonald's (you guessed it) the largest McDonald's in the world!
Opened in 1957, the building was originally home to the Glass House restaurant. You can clearly see why because the "Mickey-dees" still has the original glass house design, just with the addition of the golden arches.
In time the Glass House became a Howard Johnson's restaurant, before it was finally subsumed into the world's largest chain of hamburger-based fast food restaurants – and started serving Big Macs.
In truth, most of the interior of the restaurant is today turned over to gift shops, coffee bars, and even a gas station; so the claim to be the world's largest McDonald's should be taken with a pinch of salt (as is always the case with claims such as these).
Will Rogers himself does welcome every guest though!1
If you'd like to see this potentially record-breaking restaurant for yourself, simply take I-44 northeast out of Tulsa. You really can't miss it!
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No, not the real one. ↩︎
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They should of doubled it as a drive through.
You know what? I went through here a few months ago and I don’t remember seeing a drive thru at all! I need to check on that because can a McDonald’s really be a McDonald’s without a drive thru? 🙂
Reminds me of the hotel straddling the I-90 at Newton, on the way into Boston: View Placemark,,0,-2.87
What about the giant two-floor one in Chicago??? That one seems much more impressive to me.
There’s always the “Brugrestaurant”/”Bridge restaurant” over the A4 near Hoofddorp
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I’ve been there! …..Huh, didn’t know it was the largest – just thought it was well thought out so both sides of interstate could use it. Ever been to the busiest McDonald? I have.
It’s somewhere between Pa and Lincoln, Nebraska – Iowa I think. Ten deep at the counter and we waited barely long enough to make our choices.They must have had an excellent training program for employees and damn hard workers too.
Ah yes, family vacation memories……..’Course now we pack up the cooler and eat in the car- no more little ones that need to run around and shout with joy….
Wow. I’m hungry now!
There is also a two story McDonald’s in Louisville, KY.
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A few blocks away is another McDonald’s. I find this one more interesting because it is incorporated into a children’s hospital. So much for promoting children’s health.
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You just gotta love McDonalds! Awesome website by the way!
Do I need a permission to republish this on the other site?